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Originally Posted by diceman
I'd assume that the more wood/wood contact, the more transfer of vibrations from the neck to the body. Imagine that you have a metal post pounded 3 feet into the ground. Not going anyhwere - very stable. Then you have another one that is pounded 6 feet in to the ground. Stability is the same. Hit them both with a hammer, and which one will transfer the most vibration in to the ground? Clearly the one that it seated deeper.
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Physics says a) Stability not same since the length of the rigid part and length of the free part is different b) Both will vibrate at different frequency - THAT's why different amount of sound (or we can say energy) is created and transferred to the ground.
Anyways, since this is not physics forum, suffice it to say, the length of the tenon will not matter as much as we;re making it out to be, unless by short tenon you mean a point contact
What will matter is a lot of other things like the quality of the wood and the perfection obtained in the tenon contact.
My opinion is both the guitars have their merits. Most of us would just like to go for one which sounds better to our ears and plays better in our hands. And with guitars of such standards are these, it's almost that I like a VM today, I might find a better Elitist tomorrow, and an even lovelier VM the day after
Also, the finishing is one part of it which some of us can live without and some of us can't. Don't some of us drool at lovely flamed maples
bby
To each his own!!
Let's just get all our Epi's and Gibby's and everything else to Hawaii and jam out on a sunny beach
